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Josh Simons' Coordinates in the Blogosphere

Josh Simons, CEO Sun Microsystems

I received a phone call yesterday morning from a firm claiming to be preparing a
plaque recognizing Sun's selection as one of the
20 best large companies to
work for in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal. They wanted
to send a mock-up of the plaque to me for my approval. A weird request
to make of a random engineer in a 30K+ person company. Figuring this
was some sort of headhunter scam to extract additional information
from me, I asked how they had found
my name and phone number. Whereupon she asked, "Aren't you the CEO?"
I responded by giving her Sun's main phone number in Burlington and suggested
she call there for help.

I had a good laugh about this with Eric, the engineer in the office next
to mine. As it happens, Eric's office is across from our mailstop. While talking with him, I was idly
sorting through my mail when I came across a piece with this mailing label:

The sender of this letter has nothing whatsoever to do with the firm that had just called me
about the plaque. Oh boy.
I have no idea how this happened and I can't imagine what kinds of
mailings, phone calls, and invitations I'll now receive as a result. Jonathan, see you in
Davos?